Will The Jeff Probst Show be cancelled soon? Ricki Lake’s low-rated talk show was cancelled today and Deadline predicts that “[a] similar announcement for Jeff Probst should be coming soon.”

Donald Trump is suing Bill Maher over an obvious joke Maher made on Leno: Mocking Trump’s $5 million offer to see Obama’s college records, Maher joked he’d give $5 million to charity if Trump proved he wasn’t the “spawn of his mother having sex with orangutan.” Trump insists that wasn’t a joke because Maher “said it with venom.”

American Ninja Warrior is casting for this summer’s season of the insane obstacle course competition.

Spencer Pratt attempted to show emotion on the finale of the UK’s Celebrity Big Brother, telling his fellow housemates, “I would have loved to come on this experience and just been normal, but that’s not what they pay me to do, so it’s been very difficult for me to be awful. But you know, I just gotta be the bad guy.” He and Heidi placed second.

Multiple documentaries about Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath are being produced, in part because, as The New York Times reports, “The unearthly atmosphere of a blacked-out Lower Manhattan alone was enough to send would-be auteurs prowling the streets with cameras.”

This awesome story about behind-the-scenes drama on Smash, written and reported by my friend Kate Aurthur, makes it clear that NBC’s biggest mistake with the series was not filming the drama of the production itself for a companion reality series.

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